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Berlin airlift
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.june 24, 1948-june 12, 1949 -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Korean War
Korean War, conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of north Korea and the Republic of south Korea in which at least 2.5 million people lost their lives.june 25,1950-july 27, 1953 -
Creation of Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 as per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954 -
Vietnam War
A protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its ally the United States.november 1, 1955-april 30 1975 -
sputnik
Sputnik, any of a series of three artificial Earth satellites, the first of whose launch by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, inaugurated the space age. Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched -
Construction of Berlin Wall
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into West Berlin. -
Cuban missile crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores October 16, 1962-October 28,1962 -
moon landing
American astronauts Neil Armstrong became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later he was the first person to walk on the moon. -
Destruction of Berlin Wall
It was on five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East German leaders had tried to calm mounting protests by loosening the borders, making travel easier for East Germans.